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From: higgin@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Easy of programming, Mac, Amiga
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Date: Fri, 19-Sep-86 09:52:54 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 19 09:52:54 1986
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In article <8609182006.AA22393@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>	Though the Mac has a greater width/height resolution, the Amiga has
>better display, and, when displaying digitized BW photos, it's better than
>the MAC (by about 14x).  This is due to the fact that you can grey-scale
>individual bits on the Amiga.

Generally I agree with everything you say Matt, but this time I think what
you say is highly subjective, and possibly inaccurate.  I believe the Mac's
screen resolution is something like 512X352(or384) so the horizontal res
is lower than the Amiga, but the vertical is much higher (ignoring flickering
interlaced mode on the Amiga).

The reason it LOOKS like the Mac's resolution is so much higher is because
pretty much ALL text ever shown on a Mac screen is proportionally spaced.
This usually allows 80-90 characters across of average text, since they
can do characters sets which use 1 pixel wide stems due to the clarity of
the monochrome display, and its tiny size (9").  Also, with the higher
vertical resolution, the characters look more fully formed without the
"black lines" in between the scan lines like on the Amiga's 200
line mode with light text on a dark background.

Overall, I would only say that the Amiga can do better B&W PICTURES than the
Mac because of, as you mentioned, grey-scaling.  But B&W pictures are but
one element of a useful display.  Decent looking text is what I want.

	Paul.

Disclaimer: I do not work for Commodore and my opinions are my own.